Assorted Udderances » social http://blog.myselfmusic.com take a pull offa Ben's pipe Thu, 24 Nov 2011 18:25:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Cow Clicker http://blog.myselfmusic.com/2010/07/cow-clicker/ http://blog.myselfmusic.com/2010/07/cow-clicker/#comments Thu, 22 Jul 2010 19:17:13 +0000 Ben Kennedy http://blog.myselfmusic.com/?p=138 Ian Bogost has created Cow Clicker, a Facebook game  in which you get a cow, and can click on it.  Six hours later, you can click on it again.

The article is an insightful essay on the cyclical and insipid phenomenon of today's "social gaming".

I post this as a follow-up to earlier linkage of a couple weeks ago, an essay exploring why people play FarmVille. (via Marco)

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